Slog - Comments on Zombie Chickens! http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/zombie_chickens This is gross on several levels: When Jim Stauffer of Petaluma saw a chicken crawling out of a mound of compost like the living dead, he knew something had changed at the egg farm next door. "We called them zombie chickens," Stauffer said. "Some of them crawled right up out of the ground. They'd get out and stagger around." Apparently, more than a half-million "spent hens"—those that no longer produce eggs—are euthanized and thrown on compost heaps every year in Sonoma County alone. Once upon a time, people would buy these hens and cook them; in recent years, however, the... Copyright 2008 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:26:19 -0800 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:41:21 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by K Gee, after all those great alternate uses, why not just hang them on clips and use them for shooting practice?

]]> K http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/zombie_chickens#c544129 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/zombie_chickens#c544129 What the Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:36:15 -0800 Comment by Gryph They would be good for people who feed their pets raw food diets.

]]> Gryph http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/zombie_chickens#c545114 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/zombie_chickens#c545114 What the Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:38:04 -0800 Comment by Gitai I like the idea of feeding them to reptiles.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/zombie_chickens#c545127 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/zombie_chickens#c545127 What the Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:02:56 -0800 Comment by Mark Mitchell The phrase "spent hen" makes me very sad.

]]> Mark Mitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/zombie_chickens#c545625 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/zombie_chickens#c545625 What the Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:42:23 -0800 Comment by treacle This is a sign of the current apocolypse, I assure you. Sick, wrong, morally reprehensible. Once you realize that this, in the end, is what unbridled capitalism will do.. then worry about you.

]]> treacle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/zombie_chickens#c545878 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/zombie_chickens#c545878 What the Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:11:33 -0800 Comment by catalina vel-duray I don't get it. In my far, far agricultural past, when I was involved in the care of chickens (whom I still hate to this day, and will gladly eat), Old hens ended up as stewed chicken (with dumplings!) at Sunday dinner. That's what "stewers" are at the butcher store.

I must say that our way of butchering was much more human than this zombie chicken scenario. My aunt was especially good: She'd pick up the chicken, cuddle it to her immense bossom (she bore more than a passing resemblence to a "Far Side" lady), and, while cooing to it, break its neck. Clean break everytime. None of this running around with its head chopped off business.

]]> catalina vel-duray http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/zombie_chickens#c547756 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/zombie_chickens#c547756 What the Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:10:53 -0800 Comment by Mark Mitchell "Stewer" is much less depressing than "spent hen".

]]> Mark Mitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/zombie_chickens#c547800 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/zombie_chickens#c547800 What the Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:21:34 -0800 Comment by Sandra Kelley I own chickens--eight Buff Orpingtons who have the run of my rural property, amuse me with their personality and antics, and give me gorgeous eggs. This is just a reminder to everyone who cares about animals to at least choose free range eggs, or organic. It's very sad how miserable the commercial chicken's life is.

]]> Sandra Kelley http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/zombie_chickens#c547833 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/zombie_chickens#c547833 What the Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:41:21 -0800